relates to language, belifs and values and terms that m/c parents transmit to their m/c children.

ecnomic capital can be transerred into educational capital:

Pay for private education tutors

pay for extra resources

move into catchment area for a better school.

M/C have an advantage as they have more cultural capital and teachers share values with m/c children. EVIDENCE: (sullivan) - conducted a survey of 465 pupils in four schools she found m/c:

read more, watched more documentrys, had a wider vocab and did more activities.

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evaluation points

FEINSTEIN: main reason why w/c children under acheived at school was because the parents lach of intrest.

HYMAN: belives that w/c belive they have less opportunity for indivisual success and place little value on acheiveing a high status job. leave early to take on manual work, they dont want educational success or know how to get it.

SUGARMAN: ( values that might impact on the ability of w/c to achieve )

Fatalism- whatever will be will be. Collectivism- value being part of a group over indivisual sucess. Immediate gratification - seeking pleasure now and not thinking about the future effect. Presant time orientation- the complete lach of a goal in life.

Promblem with the cultural deprivation theory is that it blames home and therefore does not moake the goverment or education system take resbonsibilty.